NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Paul Andrew Hutton’s ‘Undiscovered Country’ and Peter Cozzen’s ‘Deadwood’ examine the nation through separate lenses.

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

J. Michael Luttig is a Republican-appointed former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the ...

The Left is already criticizing Trump by saying that he came down on tariffs or he didn’t get as many soybean sales. I think ...